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One Silicon Valley figure suggested, “It could be as simple as 10 Republican senators discovering they actually have backbones.”

Or 10 big-time CEOs, I might add. They can unbend their knees and perhaps revive some of the Valley’s soul. Or at least stop ripping it apart. And while they’re at it, stop making it so easy for the government to usher in... See more

Public AI providers can do both. If nudging Facebook users towards more positive or negative content can change their emotions, imagine the effect of public AI providers turning up the temperature on their core models. That single parameter could control how polite or rude we are to each other in billions of emails and text messages. Other... See more

As it is with both announcers and human analysts, it’s not that LLMs will lie about the numbers; it’s that they’ll tell you what they see, before you have a chance to see it for yourself. If data is a company’s senses, then whatever sits between a quantitative question and its annotated answer is the creative director of a company’s reality. That... See more

This is the challenge faced by all research into ecstatic states of consciousness. The mind responds to our expectations, and to the script we bring to it, via what the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking calls ‘looping effects’. We take the mind’s responses as objective proof of our theory, when they are really just responses to the script.

ChatGPT has also become a broadly accessible global tool, with especially rapid growth in low- and middle-income countries. By May 2025, ChatGPT adoption growth rates in the lowest income countries were over 4x those in the highest income countries.

“The oligopoly in cloud computing presents an urgent risk,” he said, “because society depends on the cloud, especially for developing AI systems.”

Ramzanali just released a six-point policy blueprint based on his own research urging Congress to regulate the sector as a kind of critical infrastructure like the transportation, healthcare or energy... See more

But all of that is peanuts, potentially, compared to Trump’s pursuit of a “Golden Dome” over America, which would allegedly protect it from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles all at once. Trump picked the top general from the Space Force to lead it and promised that such a defense would include “space-based sensors and interceptors.” That... See more

However, it’s also true that psychedelics amplify set and setting. If a person has the mindset or intention to ‘find the root traumatic cause of my suffering’, if they are immersed in the cultural narrative of ‘traumadelica’ (i.e. ‘psychedelics can help me uncover early trauma and thereby find healing’), it’s possible that psychedelics will reflect... See more

Musk isn’t afraid to use his technologies to advance his politics. We’ve seen how his tweaks to X have made it more Nazi-friendly, and how his chatbot will start talking about “white genocide.” We’ve seen Musk enable a war effort, and we’ve seen him deny that aid when it suited him to do so. This has all happened while Starlink is in its relative... See more